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The Northern and Southern California chapters will be holding a joint meeting and a joint reception at the ARLIS 2018 annual conference in NYC on Monday, February 26th. We hope to see many of you at one or both gatherings!

We will have three large communal tables reserved at the front of the restaurant and signs for easy identification. Special thanks to Jennifer Kishi for taking care of all of these arrangements.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions to either Abby Dansiger, Northern California Chapter Chair, at adansiger@famsf.org or Jennifer Kishi, Southern California Chapter Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, at jenkishi@gmail.com.

Megan Sallabedra, a first year MLIS student in UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies with a BA in History of Art and Visual Culture from UC Santa Cruz, and an MA in Curatorial Practice in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California. Megan expects to earn her MLIS in 2019 and this will be her first ARLIS/NA conference. She has worked for the past several years in the field of fine arts in a range of roles – from organizing exhibitions and related programming at the exhibition space 356 Mission in Los Angeles, to selling art books at Ooga Booga, managing private art collections and public art projects at Lendrum Fine Art, to advanced research and writing on contemporary artists and practices as part of her own ongoing professional interests. She set her sights on a career trajectory in an art library setting after taking on a project with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Balch Art Research Library – prioritizing, digitizing and cataloging their holding of artist files, and she currently works part time as a Graduate Reference Assistant in the UCLA Arts Library.

ARLIS/Southern California Chapter Judith A. Hoffberg Travel Award:

Lorie S. Kim, a first-year student in UCLA’s MLIS program, specializing in Archival Studies. For her undergraduate degree in visual culture at the University of Southern California, Lorie wrote a senior research thesis on “The Convergence of Eastern and Western Design and Its Effects on the Development of Global Fashion.” Along with her academic studies, she has seven years of professional experience in the arts, which inspired both her aspirations for graduate studies in Library and Information Science and her professional pursuit of art librarianship and archival work. As an Exhibitions Intern in the Exhibitions Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for approximately two years, she assisted with all levels of exhibitions coordination, including maintaining the museum’s collections database and supporting a range of collections management projects. More recently she interned at the Los Angeles location of the Hauser & Wirth contemporary art gallery where her projects included digitization of curator Paul Schimmel’s archive of press material and organizing the libraries’ giveaway book collection. She then served as the representative for Los Angeles in the gallery’s global five-person Library Team, as the Los Angeles contact for Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ activities, as the Los Angeles gallery’s bookshop manager, and as the coordinator of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ local Book & Printed Matter Lab, a small exhibition space for publication-related presentations and public programming. She now serves as a cataloger at ARCANA, an art bookstore in Culver City. This will be Lorie Kim’s first ARLIS/NA conference and she plans to attend the ‘Consulting with Artists: Creating, Describing, and Disseminating the Visual Arts’ workshop and the behind-the-scenes tour of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Please join us in congratulating Megan and Lorie and please help us welcome them to ARLIS/NA when you meet them in New York City!

Inside you’ll find…
• An update from 2017 Chair/2018 Past-Chair, Simone Fujita
• A member spotlight with Robert Gore of the UCLA Arts Library
• Reports from travel award winners Lucy Campbell, Karly Wildenhaus, and Emily Coxe
• A recap of last year’s 45th Annual Conference in New Orleans and a look forward to the upcoming 46th Annual Conference in New York
• An update from the ARLIS/NA Board Chapters Liaison, Catherine Essinger
• Details about “Engaging The Iterative: Pedagogical Experiments Across Art And Design Disciplines,” an ARLIS/NA-sponsored panel at the CAA Conference in Los Angeles
• Photos from events at ArtCenter Library, USC Libraries’ ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, and Brand Library & Art Center

Brand Library & Art Center is a unique public library that focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including a collection of over 110,000 items, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances and hands-on craft programs for children and adults. In 2012, Brand Library closed for a highly anticipated historic renovation project that restored features of this 1904 mansion. In addition to the historic library, participants can enjoy the current gallery exhibition ONE YEAR: The Art of Politics in Los Angeles. Come explore the unique architecture and setting of Brand Library & Art Center!